Joe Diffie Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.
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Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
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And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
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They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.
